Clyde Forrester wrote these words on 08/16/07 17:42 CST: > So... (bottom posting, of course)... (sorry if I'm being dense)... > normally I would be in the newly unpacked foo.1.2.3 directory, and doing > my configure, make, make install? Whereas in chapter 5, by creating a > foo-build directory and working therein, I'm doing something relatively > unusual?
We only build in a separate build directory when the maintainers of the package recommend to do it that way (chapters 5 *and* 6, by the way). As I said, you can build from wherever you like. It is easiest from within the source tree, so we do it that way unless it is recommended to do it another way. Make sense? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 17:49:00 up 6:02, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.26, 0.27 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
